To update NCBI Preferences:
• Log in to your MyNCBI account
• select NCBI Site Preferences at the top right of the MyNCBI screen
• under PubMed Preferences, click on Outside Tool.
• click the radio button next to University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library, then Save.

You will now see the “Find It” icon appearing next to all PubMed abstracts, rather than seeing the old Eccles Library filter icon, “Eccles Library Online” appearing only next to selected abstracts. Clicking on the Find It icon will direct you to full-text article options from the library catalog. When off campus, you’ll be prompted to log in with your uNID. If the University of Utah does NOT have full-text access to that particular article, you will see the interlibrary loan “Request an Article” option.

Why is it changing?

By linking to full text from the library catalog, we are able to provide access to hundreds of additional journal titles.

Click on Mobile at the top of the screen in the blue bar (see screenshot):

When prompted, enter your university email address. An authentication key will be emailed to you. Check your email for a message from donotreply@ebsco.com. The subject line of the email will say “Instructions and Authentication – EBSCOhost iPhone and Android Apps”.

Open the email from your mobile device.

Within 48 hours, tap on the link in the email to authenticate the app.
Note: after 48 hours, users will need to request a new authentication key.

Relax and chat with your colleagues for a mid-afternoon break! Join us for refreshments and conversation. Share your favorite app.

Featured App: VisualDx

Presentation at 2:15 PM by Amanda Truong, a School of Medicine Student.

VisualDx is a decision support tool for diagnosing visually identifiable diseases. Search directly for a disease or build your case! Come find out how Amanda used VisualDx while working in Ghana; click here to read her eSynapse article about the experience.

Special thanks to our partner, the Office of the Associate Vice President for Faculty and Academic Affairs, for funding refreshments.

Register and create your personal account (upper right corner of screen) in ClinicalKey.

Get more options with Clinical Key – Personalize.

Please Note:

A personal account is not required to access ClinicalKey content from the University Network. (When off campus, log in with uNID.) But the benefits listed above are accessed only with a personal account created in ClinicalKey provided by the library.

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Fri, 21 Nov 2014 23:09:01 +0000http://library.med.utah.edu/blog/eccles/?p=3958On November 14, Minna Wang, presented an app that her Bench-2-Bedside team created. The app is called CHIMP which stands for “Cultural Health Intelligence for Medical Personnel”.

We were really excited for their team to present at Appy Hour because they won the Library’s sponsored award for Bench-2-Bedside, the “Sex and Gender Differences Award”. To learn more about sex and gender differences, check out our guide.

CHIMP is designed to increase cultural awareness during interactions between health care professionals and patients. This is a reference tool for medical personnel to review before they interact with a patient with a different cultural background than their own. The app currently provides information about four prominent ethnicity groups: African American, Asian (Southeast), Latino, and Native America. After selecting the ethnic group and gender of the patient, the medical personnel can select information from four categories: cultural health beliefs, cultural treatment practices, family structure, and additional information.

CHIMP is currently available for Android and will soon be available for iOS. Give it a try!

On June 6 at Appy Hour, Wayne Hendrix, a third year medical student in the School of Medicine at the University of Utah, presented two medical calculation apps. The apps are MedCalc and ABG Acid-Base Eval.

Wayne uses both of these medical calculator apps in rotations. MedCalc (picture on the left) is a board calculator app with multiple medical formulas, scores, scales, and classifications divided into overarching topics or body systems.

The other app, ABG Acid-Base Eval (picture on the right), is a more specific tool for analyzing ABG’s and electrolytes in patients. This app takes the user through a step-by-step approach to discover potential acid-base disorders and offers diagnostic ideas. Wayne believes that ABG Acid-Base Eval is a great tool for guiding and reminding practitioners of the methodical approach!

The app takes the user (pediatric and obstetric care providers) through a series of questions concerning the patient. Depending upon the answers, Prevent Group B Strep provides a specific patient management plan or appropriate antibiotic regimen in adherence to the 2010 Guidelines.

By converting the guidelines into a scenario driven app, pediatric and obstetric providers can better implement evidence-based guidelines to prevent GBS disease.

“Cases Database adds value to individual reports, allowing comparison of similar cases and helping to highlight trends and patterns which may help researchers to develop hypotheses which can then be tested by systematic research.
To aid discovery, all cases reports in Case Database are annotated using text-mining, which extracts clinically relevant information such as age, sex, ethnicity, symptom, intervention or medication using standard controlled vocabularies.”

UpToDate is now available both on and off campus. Health practitioners are encouraged to register to gain continuing education (CME/CE/CPD ) credit and other benefits. However, users can skip registration and use UpToDate anonymously.

NOTE: uptodate.com/online continues to work from devices connected to the university network and does not prompt for user registration.

NOTE to Mobile Users: Download the App!!

UpToDate App instructions for enterprise license:
– Register by using the Register/Login button on the UpToDate main search page,
– Download the appropriate app (for iOS, Android, and Windows 8 devices.)
– Once your registration is confirmed you may now use those UpToDate credentials to login via your mobile device.
– Please note: 1) the enterprise app does require internet and 2) you will need to log into your UpToDate account once/month.